Example sentences of "this seem " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seemed to be the case . |
| 2 | Although this seemed a good idea at the time , current strategy at WH Smith is to have full control , as in the buying up of 100 per cent of Molinaire , the TV services company , in July . |
| 3 | This seemed a refreshing attempt to ‘ break the mould ’ of British politics . |
| 4 | This seemed to many privatization run mad . |
| 5 | This seemed to me a more important priority in 1959 than overmuch argument about nuclear philosophical heresies of one kind or another . |
| 6 | So long as fees rolled in , all this seemed justifiable . |
| 7 | To an outsider this seemed a quite natural progression , but within the West Indies it was not greeted with unmitigated delight . |
| 8 | This seemed to be a place where , despite noises in the night and a few dangers like trees that grew inside you and made your throat choke , a person might feel sale for always . |
| 9 | This seemed a race well beyond his stamina range , for the Grand National is over nearly four and a half miles and Crisp 's ideal distance was apparently no further than two and a half miles . |
| 10 | This seemed the safest bolthole . ’ |
| 11 | This seemed a very sophisticated city . |
| 12 | This seemed , more than anything , to symbolise the difference between them . |
| 13 | She knew his ways and had adapted to them and this seemed to give him a satisfaction which quietened him . |
| 14 | Goalscorer John Byrne , who broke a leg while playing for French club Le Havre three years ago which threatened to end his career , said : ‘ At that time , days like this seemed a million miles away . |
| 15 | After the street brawl against Manchester City last Tuesday this seemed like a gentle Sunday afternoon stroll in the North London sunshine . |
| 16 | This seemed to indicate that those areas with full-time farmers were the most efficient but there were many other factors to be considered . |
| 17 | This choice had advantages of feasibility , but was not made without the reservation that advantages for the generic approach might lie in its ability to transcend client group stereotypes ; this seemed less of a problem , however , with elderly people , who fall rather less ambiguously into a self-contained category of client than some others . |
| 18 | This seemed to be an unusually severe Tannesterben . |
| 19 | They may not , for instance , be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement ( I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem ) ; or they may not trust each other or the teacher ; or the ‘ hidden curriculum , of the group 's own dynamics may cut across the drama 's requirements ( for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction ) ; or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing material for ‘ showing ’ so that they miss out almost entirely on ‘ playing the drama game ’ ; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience . |
| 20 | This seemed to upset Leslie disproportionately . |
| 21 | In its varied type-faces , its symbols of mourning — lilies , the reaping sickle , the portrait photograph framed in lines as if hanging on a wall — and its verses from Longfellow , this seemed an almost Victorian celebration of death . |
| 22 | Of course I realised that at the last moment he could have been attached to another troop , but this seemed highly unlikely in view of the S.A.S. methods of training , which relied upon close personal co-operation between all ranks . |
| 23 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 24 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 25 | This seemed incredible . |
| 26 | This seemed to have become a permanent condition . |
| 27 | This seemed to content him . |
| 28 | This seemed to take the wind out of Miss Kenton 's sails somewhat . |
| 29 | This seemed to me , and still seems to me , more satisfactory than writing books from an Oxford chair . ’ |
| 30 | This seemed the start of the rot ( for us snobs ) . |